Scientists warn that what killed past human species, could end us too

[NomoneyNohoney]

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-ev ... es-0014411

[Gengulphus]

To give some context, a quote from the end of the Discussion section of the scientific paper this is based on:

... For multiple reasons, not least the spectacular advances in technologies available to shield modern humans from directly experiencing their own local climate, and the agricultural enhancement of natural primary production, our methodology cannot meaningfully be applied directly to the future of H. sapiens. But our own future depends critically on the health of Earth's supporting ecosystems and the entire living biota, and our analysis provides a stark warning concerning the power of anthropogenic future climate change to translate directly into extinction risk for other species less well equipped to adapt than sp. Homo. This suggests that the threat posed by the current, anthropogenic climate change for global wildlife and, by extension, ourselves, is possibly even more powerful than is generally appreciated.

My point in posting this quote is that they're not suggesting that climate change could kill us off by directly making the climate unendurable for us, i.e. similarly to the way that they're presenting evidence that it killed off past human species. As they indicate, our spectacular technology advances shield us from extinction due to that to a very great extent - it would take something very extreme in the way of climate change to kill us off directly and completely.

Rather, they're suggesting that by directly making considerable numbers of other species extinct, climate change poses an indirect threat to the entire ecosystem, including ourselves. And note that a threat is not necessarily a threat of extinction...

In short, this headline seems to me very sensationalised compared with what the scientists concerned are actually saying. Not by any means the first time something like that has happened with scientific developments, of course...

Gengulphus